[kictanet] Fwd: SV: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Undersea cable plan tangled in acrimony inSouth Africa

[Alex Gakuru]

wow! "Open Access" is music to many no just my ears. 
I wish you failure at selling Telkom this way,
honestly. That said, could you allow me to organise a
Special Purpose Truck for Kenyan consumers to invest
in Telkom more money that the Shs. 5 Billion? Fast
tracking (READ get round) NSE rules?

Thanks.

--- bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:

> Dear Alex,
> Telkon will not own Teams.  The Government of Kenya
> will own 40% stake in
> the Teams SPV while regional operators and investors
> will own 45%.  The
> remaining 15% shall be owned by Etisalat.  The
> Government shall ensure
> open access in both Teams and the Terrestrial
> Networks to enable both
> large and small enterprises to compete.
> 
> Do not worry about the sale of TKL since we have not
> sold it yet and we
> shall not sell it if the deal is not good.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ndemo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Before quickly "thirding", I urge on the need to
> have
> > light shed on TEAMS investment structure,
> otherwise we
> > could end up never getting the envisaged cheap
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > Why? After 51% of Telkom Kenya is sold to British
> > Telcom (or another) then whoever will have the
> cable
> > ownership transfered to them thus could dictate
> what
> > the final price will be.
> >
> > Little Telkom sale (Shs 5 Billion) is happening
> just
> > when the promising CDMA is getting rolled out.
> Going
> > by last year's Safaricom profits, the sale value
> is
> > also Kidogo Sana.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > --- Kai Wulff <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke> wrote:
> >
> >> I second that!
> >>
> >> It is comforting to know that SA will provide
> >> security to Africa by
> >> insisting on a majority ownership of the cables!
> >>
> >> I am sure this attitude will change once Kenya
> >> receives capacity @ less than
> >> USD 100,- per M ..
> >>
> >> Kai
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> >> To: <kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke>
> >> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
> >> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 14:44
> >> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fwd: SV:
> [AfrISPA.Discuss]
> >> Undersea cable plan
> >> tangled in acrimony inSouth Africa
> >>
> >>
> >> I used to have a difficult time explaining to
> fellow
> >> Kenyans that it was
> >> very difficult dealing with our brothers in SA
> >> because at every meeting
> >> goal posts kept on shifting.  Perharps now
> everybody
> >> understands that the
> >> veto power in the NEPAD protocol was a control
> tool.
> >>  Below please find
> >> additional material.
> >>
> >> Ndemo.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cables require local ownership BY DAMARIA SENNE &
> >> CHRISTELLE DU TOIT
> >> <mailto:damaria at itweb.co.za> [ Johannesburg, 10
> >> September 2007 ]
> >>
> >> South Africa requires that all undersea cables
> >> landing here be majority
> >> owned by South Africans, says communications
> >> Minister Ivy
> >> Matsepe-Casaburri.
> >>
> >> Speaking at the Southern African
> Telecommunications
> >> Networks and
> >> Applications Conference (Satnac) 2007, in
> Mauritius,
> >> this morning,
> >> Matsepe-Casaburri said government was happy with
> >> indications that
> >> investors plan to land cables in the country.
> >> However, she will soon announce new landing
> >> guidelines that require that
> >> "all cables " landing in SA be majority owned by
> >> South Africans, she said.
> >>
> >> The guidelines will also be consistent with SA's
> >> foreign policy and take
> >> the security of the country, and the African
> >> continent, into
> >> consideration, she said.
> >> "Every cable landing or leaving SA should
> >> incorporate in it the Nepad [New
> >> Partnership for Africa's Development] Broadband
> >> Infrastructure Network."
> >> Security measures are important, given the state
> of
> >> our insecure world,
> >> she added.
> >>
> >> Matsepe-Casaburri said that she instructed Dep.of
> >> Communications
> >> Dir-General Lyndall Shope-Mafole to propose the
> >> landing guidelines to the
> >> Interim Inter-Governmental Assembly for
> discussion.
> >> She also noted that
> >> her department studied the communications
> >> regulations of other countries
> >> when drafting the landing guidelines, ensuring
> they
> >> are consistent with
> >> international trends.
> >>
> >> Determination expected
> >> BMI-TechKnowledge senior analyst Richard Hurst
> says
> >> the implications of
> >> the ownership stipulations are that "those who do
> >> end up rolling out
> >> cables will have to do so via partnerships". He
> >> cites Seacom and Neotel's
> >> interaction as an example of this, where "Neotel
> >> basically would control
> >> the landing rights of Seacom in SA".
> >> According to Hurst, "government is trying to
> hedge
> >> its bets", but the
> >> stipulations set out by the minister have
> generally
> >> been expected. He says
> >> South African companies should benefit from the
> >> directives, as should the
> >> consumer.
> >> "It should open up access to those cables and
> bring
> >> prices down." He adds
> >> that, as the international community moves
> towards
> >> always-on broadband, SA
> >> will also increasingly need high-speed capacity.
> >> However he reiterates:
> >> "The more bandwidth we have, the better."
> >>
> >> Investor support
> >> Meanwhile, Matsepe-Casaburri said SA was
> convinced
> >> it was on the right
> >> path to break away from the Eassy (Eastern Africa
> >> Submarine Cable System)
> >> cable project and support the Nepad Broadband
> >> Infrastructure Network, as
> >> well as initiating its own undersea cable
> systems.
> >>
> >> She said there was strong support from potential
> >> investors in the Nepad
> >> Broadband  (?) Infrastructure Network. "Instead
> of
> >> people running away
> >> from us, we have a lot of support from
> investors."
> >> SA and other African governments broke away from
> the
> >> Eassy project because
> >> larger operators taking part in the initiative
> >> bought such large
> >> quantities of capacity that there would never be
> >> fair access for smaller
> >> operators, she noted.
> >>
> >> EASSY project was not in line with the Nepad
> >> objective, which was to
> 
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